A Ruin With A View! (278)

[G50]

This episode was ok... It was cool seeing Mightyena and Team Magma for the 1st time. Torchic vs the Water Pokemon was very funny to watch. It was cool to see an Azurill for the 1st time. It was cool to see Ash telling May that she has to battle the Pokemon in order to catch it.

39/100

[RickHoenn]

Great episode, Ash teaching May that she has to fight the poke in order to catch it showed that he was experienced at least unlike BW to be honest I liked this start more.

Highlights: Team Magma appearance yay! they appeared early, Ash & May reach Oldale Town yay and Ashy signing up for the Hoenn League, the start of a journey!

10/10

[Caseydia]

I like how Ash is teacher some what to May. I like how they spend time each other too.

[Bulba the Great!]

I remember being absolutely determined on figuring out how Brock would be returning (this was before I'd begun frequenting fansites). When there's gossip about the new gym leader at Petalburg, I just KNEW it would be Brock, that this would be the business he had to take care of.

...oops.

[UnbelievableUrsula]

I wished that guy was in place of Brock. I think I liked seeing his eyes and not have to listen to bad sweet talk every episode.

[7threst]

This was really a nice introduction to how bad and awesome Team Magma was. It was also nice to see Giovanni assigning Team Rocket to the Hoenn region and I loved the emphasize on May being a rookie trainer. And hey, this is the first time I heard the Hoenn battle music too during the battle at the end with Team Rocket. I always enjoyed hearing that theme.

[AquaMilotic]

As Angel mentioned, seeing Ash teaching May how to catch Pokemon was nice. Seeing Relicanth this early in AG was also pretty cool. And Azurill, Marill and Azumarill are such cuties! ^_^

7/10

[Doryuzu]

A Ruin with a View

Episode two and Ash is already into it with May. I actually didn't have a clue they ever had any scrapes, guess it makes sense since he had some with Dawn and Iris early on as well. I thought it was hilarious the way May was telling Ash how she offered him her help with showing him the way to the next town. It really shows how adventurous and energetic Ash is and how May alludes to how Pikachu baked her bike in the previous episode. I liked how May was pretty ignorant to the idea of out-of-the-ball Pokemon. I enjoyed how May's Pokedex had a feminine voice and going for an Azurill capture right off the bat, but not weakening it first was a nice mistake and it was funny Ash tried to stop her from doing that and explained to it had to be battled and the typical type crap. God, Torchic was so pathetic, Piplup, Pikachu, and Axew were all vastly better off the bat.

Team Rocket being assigned to set up operations in Hoenn and the fact Giovanni is aware that they're spending all their time tailing a Pikachu around the world was an interesting revelation and so that's their "promotion" apparently, also liked Butch and Cassidy. May certainly was hesitant to go to the Petalburg Gym, GEE I wonder why. :P Other than that this episode really for the beginning half might as well have been called a "Ash introduces May to Pokemon" type deal with all the type stuff, capture stuff, Pokemon Center tour, etc. Thus this episode debuted May's obsession with food. Having Team Magma appear so earlier off the bat was definitely a smart thing that AG did, wish the other sagas had implemented this. BW seemed on mend with TP's appearance around the 20's. Arbok and Weezing being forced back into their Pokeballs by Roar from Houndoom shows how uncreative and cheaper attack animation was back then.

I liked how May decided to tag along with Ash so she wouldn't "miss out on the adventure" given early on she seems more like a damsel than an adventurous type. Thought it was weird how all the other trainers seemed to magically disappear during the second-half of the episode. Shame Ash never got to confront the Magma Grunts, probably because Pikachu would get killed by those Houndoom and May would be useless. Though he did a good job of defeating Arbok in about 20 seconds and sending TR flying with ease. I have a bit of a hard time believing all that **** they did lasted to morning time, but oh well. The real treasure of the ruins being Relicanth was lame. I also thought at the end of the episode "Alden, no one gives a **** about your research."

[DawnBoy]

Pretty good episode. May tries to catch and Azurill, but fails and Team Magma appears for the 1st time. 7/10

[Angel~]

Decent episode, it was funny seeing May fail after attempting to catch Azurill. Seeing the 3 evolutions for it was nice, though Pikachu was a bit rude for shocking them. I was surprised that May didn't know anything about a Pokemon Center. Just because Little Root Town doesn't have one doesn't mean you can never go into one. She needs some serious touring, even for the basics. Wow, so sad. Team Magmas debut, they seem really evil and I loved the new Hoenn battle music. The COTD was too basic for my tastes though.